MUSEUMS AND GALLERIES
State index: 1.6.172
Architects: Mark Grigoryan, Eduard Altunyan
The building is located at 3rd Zarobyan Street, in vicinity with the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Armenia.
The one-storey house where the world-famous Armenian composer stayed while being in Yerevan served as the basis for the house-museum. The mansion was dedicated to Aram Khachatryan by the government of Soviet Armenia. His mother and brother used to live there with their family. The house (architect: Mark Grigoryan) consisted of five spacious rooms and had a garden next to it. The decision to turn the house into a museum was accepted by the Council of Ministers of the USSR on July 21, 1976, during Khachatryan’s lifetime.
The house has been preserved unchanged, and a two-storey house-museum building was built in the garden area. A small inner courtyard has been preserved, where on the occasion of Khachatryan’s 105th birthday (2008), a spring-monument was erected, designed by architects S. Gurzadyan and S. Barseghyan as a gift to the museum. After the death of Mark Grigoryan (1978), the work was continued by the architect Eduard Altunyan. The official opening of the museum took place in 1982 and it operated until the September of 1985, after which it did not operate for several years in purpose of renovation works. The first exhibition was opened on January 23, 1984. More than 18,000 valuable exhibits have been collected in the house-museum: photos, letters, books, manuscripts, various editions of works, films, recordings, personal belongings, documents, brochures, booklets, etc. Here are being organized such events as festivals, commemorative evenings, competitions, meetings with cultural figures, exhibitions, premieres of works of modern Armenian composers.
In 2006 the Government of the Republic of Armenia undertook the renovation of the House-Museum building, and on June 6, in 2008, the new permanent exhibition of the house-museum was opened. It is a two-storey, with a basement floor and inner courtyard (14 x 14 m), atrium-type museum building, all parts of which are interconnected and form a unified architectural-planning system. The basement floor holds unique string instruments, funding materials. Here are the photo lab, workshop for repairing musical instruments. On the first floor are the lobby, acoustic rooms, administrative rooms, on the second floor there are 10 spacious, permanent exhibition halls (get lit by the inner courtyard) and the concert hall (located on the former house).
The structural system of the
house-museum consists of reinforced concrete elements. On the main façade, the entrance with fronton of the former
house and 2 arched windows have been preserved. In the frontal facade of the
building, 5 arches reminding camerton were built at the height of the
whole structure. The building is built of Ani tuff, the arches are from
travertine. The dimensions are: 35 x 27m.
“Scientific Research Centre of Historical and Cultural Heritage” SNCO
Yerevan Municipality
Tuesday - Saturday 11:00-17:00
Sunday 11:00-16:30
Monday: Closed
ENTRANCE FEE
Permanent exhibition - 800 AMD
Schoolchildren, students, pensioners - 300 AMD
EXCURSION
Armenian - 2000 AMD
English, Russian - 2500 AMD
